1 Kings 14:24

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

In Context

23For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

25Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

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Cross References

Genesis 19:5And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

Leviticus 18:30So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 23:18Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

1 Kings 15:12Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

1 Corinthians 6:9Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:22-31

Rehoboam's Disgrace and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they… Read the whole commentary →

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